Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adventures of Marco Polo (Samuel Goldwyn). This grotesquely cast Marco Polo skips like a cockleshell over the surface of Marco's famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled...
Stanley remained unconsolable for the loss of his canine pal, killed Wednesday afternoon by a car which only barely missed the boy himself. Completely forgetful of his own narrow escape, he could only bewail his 'Patsy...
Confiscatory taxes on incomes and estates are claiming vast fortunes that would ordinarily be left for educational purposes. Today the Tax Collector comes first. The ambitious boy or girl takes a back seat...
...school-boy, reading of him, is likely to imagine him a great brute of a man, whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...Drunkard, playing in hotels as well as theaters. She trimmed her figure for pictures, only to get a "bit" no one noticed. She had the lead in Three Men on a Horse when the leading lady was on vacation. After that period of glory, she went on tour with Boy Meets Girl, in a part you could find only with a microscope...